I am trying to get debian up on a thinkpad 755c. First off, I know, I know, it is a very old machine and would be put to better use as a boat anchor. It's not mine. I belongs to a friend and he is simply trying to extend the life of this machine.
With that out of the way here is what is going on. I have downloaded the woody idepci floppy images. Everything works just fine up to the point where I try to configure the network. The pcmcia ethernet card I have is the 3com 3c589D. The cardmanager detects the card just fine and loads the correct driver. /sbin/ifconfig can talk to the driver without a hitch. When it comes time to send and receive packets nothing happens. If I try dhcp, it doesn't seem to get the request to the dhcp server. If I configure the IP address, etc. manually also no go. Yes, I have tried the pcmcia ethernet card in another machine and it works fine. I have tried it in a toshiba laptop. Also, I have tried this on two different thinkpad 755c laptops and the result is the same. Currently I'm thinking that I need some sort of special incantation to send to the pcmcia controller, but I don't know what that is. I have tried searching the web for something like that. I did indeed find some options to send to the pcmcia driver, but none of that worked. -bob
